‘The Future of Sustainable Hydrogen Energy’
Tim Mays, I-SEE Director | Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Bath
The prospects for hydrogen as an energy vector (or store) are at the highest now than for many years. In the UK hydrogen is in the Government’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution and is acknowledged by the Climate Change Committee as an important ingredient in meeting the country’s ambitious 2050 Net Zero Carbon target. This seminar will cover the main technology and environment aspects of hydrogen energy from production via storage and transmission to end use (“make it, move it, use it”). It will also include important economic and social impacts of these technologies. The seminar will not suggest that hydrogen is without major challenges (for example storage), nor claim that it will solve all our energy and environment problems. Rather, evidence will be provided that hydrogen has the potential to play a significant role in the future provision of sustainable energy in the UK and globally. This is important for everyone.
Tim Mays is Professor of Chemical and Materials Energy at the University of Bath, Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has over 27 years’ research experience as an academic at the University, mainly in areas related to energy materials including a focus on hydrogen storage in porous solids. Tim was Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Bath for an extended six-year term from 2013 and is currently Co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemical Technologies, and lead of the new Bath Beacon on Future Fuels: Hydrogen and its Carriers. He has been Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment (I•SEE) at Bath for twelve years. Tim has held leadership roles in large UK hydrogen research consortia since 2003 and is currently a Co-director of the EPSRC Supergen Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research Hub. He is lead on a new UKRI Hydrogen Co-ordinator project that aims to build a national Centre of Excellence in Hydrogen Research Challenges to be based at Bath.
Chaired by: Professor Sarah Hainsworth, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research), University of Bath
Tuesday 5th April
Time: 16:30 – 17:30
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‘The Future of Sustainable Hydrogen Energy’
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